Sunday, 19 May 2019
What does Pannal do?
I attended the meeting re congestion in Pannal Memorial Hall. NYCC and Pannal Parish Council were there. A good number of villagers turned up all concerned with congestion in Pannal. Now this is how I look at it. HBC has gone mad and is allowing thousands of houses to be built. They are all expensive so who are they for.? Is it people that live and work in Leeds, Bradford. York and want to be away from their place of work? I cannot answer this. I have lived in Pannal nearly all my life. I live on Main Street so I know what goes on re traffic. We are a rat run for traffic going and coming from above places. Cars stationery pollution. We are also going to have all the houses on the old Dunlopillo site. That is a fact and the infrastructure is not in place. How will the schools cope, the doctors where is takes about three weeks to get an appointment, Harrogate hospital. HBC has not put out any plans to tell us how these places will manage. All they seem to be saying is we want to build new roads and thousands of houses. We shall put traffic lights all over so you will get fed up and agree with us. We shall put traffic lights on Rudding Lane off the Wetherby Road and no one will ever see anyone working there and the lights will be there for weeks. As I type this not a single car has passed all morning. Time now 1.30pm. Admittedly there is congestion with the school traffic and also the rat run but at certain times peace reigns. Do we want a road bypassing Pannal village, to have one means to build one across green fields. Looking years ahead would it have been better to have a road across the green fields or more and more housing . One has only to look around Harrogate to see housing is the Council's plan.Does one put a roundabout at the top of Station Road and the A61 Leeds Road? Would that help or make it more attractive to rat runners. Does one put a roundabout at the bottom of Burn Bridge Lane onto the A61 Leeds Road taking the traffic away from Pannal Village but putting more traffic on Burn Bridge Road? Or do we Put up with it? We cannot get away from the fact that we have housing on Walton Park, Crimple Meadows, Pannal Green, Rosedale. Burn Bridge and then there will be housing on the Dunlopillp site. We make our own congestion. Having new roads built will not take that away. We all have to leave and go back to our homes. Sad old blog this time with nothing to brighten it up. Henry the Eighth one famously said who will rid me of this troublesome priest. Could that be applicable to HBC.
Friday, 3 May 2019
Is Pannal congested?
What do you think? Find out on Thursday May 16th from 5pm to 7pm in Pannal Memorial Hall. If you have already made your comments to Harrogate Borough Council that is fine but if not here is your chance to find out what it is all about and make your comments after you have seen Exhibition by Pannal Parish Council. Don't think HBC think we have congestion in the village. All the cars in the village from 8.30am to 9am and 3pm to 3.45pm that is because there is Pannal Primary School and I am afraid we have to put up with all the cars parking and driving. There are also cars doing the rat run and heavy lorries that are not supposed to come through the village but some of the drivers unfortunately cannot read the prohibiting signs. This goes on in the evenings from 4.30pm to about 6.30pm. Sometimes cars backed up from traffic lights at the top of Station Road all the way up to All Saints Court in occasions. Normally just a steady stream. Today as I type this silence as Harrogate is quiet due to the cyclists. When I went into town this morning what peace and it is Friday. Well seen the cyclists do not come through Pannal as our roads have so many pot holes especially top of Spring Lane. Wish they would come through here as everywhere they go the roads have been made so smooth.
I have just returned from Sorrento and it was lovely. Went to Capri and that was a rip off. Fourteen euro for two little cups of coffee. Did not dare eat there. Not a mention of Gracie Fields and at one time she was what people went to Capri for. I remember my neighbours going and coming back so excited saying we saw Gracie walking down the street. My 15 year old grandson said who is Gracie Fields and I said she was a singer who was very popular during World War Two. He said what did she sing and I said Sally put it on your phone. He did she sang the first word Sally and he said Oh God and switched her off.
My lovely neighbour looked after Tigs and Marble when I went away and when I returned they were waiting for me on the drive and I have never known such excitement. Never seen anything like it in the 15 years that I have had them. What happened whilst I was away I shall never know. Place looked the same but they were so pleased to see me, so vocal and jumping up and running round my feet. They are still doing it and I don't know why. Cats normally just say Oh your back and carry on with what they were doing. I was a lovely welcome.
Thank goodness I was not in Sorrento over Easter as it was fabulous here and all over the UK. Not so fabulous now. All hoping for better.
I have just returned from Sorrento and it was lovely. Went to Capri and that was a rip off. Fourteen euro for two little cups of coffee. Did not dare eat there. Not a mention of Gracie Fields and at one time she was what people went to Capri for. I remember my neighbours going and coming back so excited saying we saw Gracie walking down the street. My 15 year old grandson said who is Gracie Fields and I said she was a singer who was very popular during World War Two. He said what did she sing and I said Sally put it on your phone. He did she sang the first word Sally and he said Oh God and switched her off.
My lovely neighbour looked after Tigs and Marble when I went away and when I returned they were waiting for me on the drive and I have never known such excitement. Never seen anything like it in the 15 years that I have had them. What happened whilst I was away I shall never know. Place looked the same but they were so pleased to see me, so vocal and jumping up and running round my feet. They are still doing it and I don't know why. Cats normally just say Oh your back and carry on with what they were doing. I was a lovely welcome.
Thank goodness I was not in Sorrento over Easter as it was fabulous here and all over the UK. Not so fabulous now. All hoping for better.
Saturday, 16 March 2019
Good News for Pannal?
The Inspector looking at the Local Plan has said that the land behind St Robert's Church - Crimple Valley should not be built upon nor should houses be built on Spring Lane Farm land. I put the ? because I have known HBC to go their own way "for the benefit of all Harrogate " At the moment it is good news but having so many years attending planning meetings I am cautious.
I am still doing talks for various organisations but I only do them end of October until end of March. So finished now but in talking about Pannal so many occasions come up so here are a few. In the early 1960s when we all had larch trees at the end of our front gardens (later compulsory felled for the road to be widened and a pavement built) We had bats nesting in them and that was lovely seeing them flying around in the early evenings.We had a bee swarm. Thousands of them all over our windows. Gentleman came and found the queen bee and the bees all followed her and we could once more come out of our houses. Then laying a lawn and planted up our front gardens we had a herd of cows trample through them having decided not to be driven down the road by the farmer. That was fun filling in the holes their hooves left! The hunt used to come through the village and on one occasion a fox ran into the front garden as I was in the drive and the huntsman went to send the dogs in. I stood my ground and said it was private property and the leader of the hunt raised his whip to me he was furious. Then the fox jumped into my arms, then jumped down and ran up the drive and in to the back garden. When I went into the back garden he was sitting on the wall panting but to me it looked like he was laughing . Strange happening. Then we had a violent storm which came out of nowhere. I had hung out my washing and Susan was about two and was with me. The sky darkened the wind gusted it got so dark one could hardly see. I, thank God, managed to grab Susan and we went inside. My neighbours phoned as they were getting on in years and were frightened. The storm passed as quickly as it arrived and when I went out a sheet I had hung on the line was ripped in two. Pannal had survived with no trees blown down but Rudding Park suffered the loss of lots of trees. In those days Rudding Park was open to the public and it cost one shilling to enter same as Newby Hall. One concidence was when I had Susan, our first, in the bed opposite me was the wife Mrs Radcliffe of the owner of Rudding Park and when I had our fourth Richard in the bed opposite me was the stepdaughter of the owner of Newby Hall. Pannal really was a village in those far off days. No Rosedale,Walton Park, Crimple Meadows, Pannal Green, Woodcock Close. School had just moved from Woodcock Hill to the fields behind Main Street. So going back where I started this blog the Inspector realised that we really would be overcrowded with housing.
On now to what I did a couple of weeks ago. I was in the garage putting my golf battery on charge, had the plug in my hand when someone came up the drive and asked if I knew where someone lived I told him, turned round and took a plug out and put one in. Five days later I found I had removed the plug from the freezer and everything inside was swimming. Including a 19 pound (weight) turkey I had in the freezer (not going into the story why it was there and not used at Christmas - don't ask) So I rang Alan Shutt and said you have dogs would they eat this turkey. He said turkeys are poisonous to dogs. I looked it up on google yes he was right so I took the wrappings off lugged it down to the bottom of the garden, it started to rain so I thought I shall try and cut it up in the morning. When I opened the curtains in the morning it had gone.(Theme tune to Jaws here). No bones there nothing. Cats too little to move or eat it. We do have a large dog fox in the Quarry could it have been him? How? Cannot get into neighbours gardens fenced off and there is a wall at the end of my garden and then Pannal Stream. Mystery has not been solved.
I am still doing talks for various organisations but I only do them end of October until end of March. So finished now but in talking about Pannal so many occasions come up so here are a few. In the early 1960s when we all had larch trees at the end of our front gardens (later compulsory felled for the road to be widened and a pavement built) We had bats nesting in them and that was lovely seeing them flying around in the early evenings.We had a bee swarm. Thousands of them all over our windows. Gentleman came and found the queen bee and the bees all followed her and we could once more come out of our houses. Then laying a lawn and planted up our front gardens we had a herd of cows trample through them having decided not to be driven down the road by the farmer. That was fun filling in the holes their hooves left! The hunt used to come through the village and on one occasion a fox ran into the front garden as I was in the drive and the huntsman went to send the dogs in. I stood my ground and said it was private property and the leader of the hunt raised his whip to me he was furious. Then the fox jumped into my arms, then jumped down and ran up the drive and in to the back garden. When I went into the back garden he was sitting on the wall panting but to me it looked like he was laughing . Strange happening. Then we had a violent storm which came out of nowhere. I had hung out my washing and Susan was about two and was with me. The sky darkened the wind gusted it got so dark one could hardly see. I, thank God, managed to grab Susan and we went inside. My neighbours phoned as they were getting on in years and were frightened. The storm passed as quickly as it arrived and when I went out a sheet I had hung on the line was ripped in two. Pannal had survived with no trees blown down but Rudding Park suffered the loss of lots of trees. In those days Rudding Park was open to the public and it cost one shilling to enter same as Newby Hall. One concidence was when I had Susan, our first, in the bed opposite me was the wife Mrs Radcliffe of the owner of Rudding Park and when I had our fourth Richard in the bed opposite me was the stepdaughter of the owner of Newby Hall. Pannal really was a village in those far off days. No Rosedale,Walton Park, Crimple Meadows, Pannal Green, Woodcock Close. School had just moved from Woodcock Hill to the fields behind Main Street. So going back where I started this blog the Inspector realised that we really would be overcrowded with housing.
On now to what I did a couple of weeks ago. I was in the garage putting my golf battery on charge, had the plug in my hand when someone came up the drive and asked if I knew where someone lived I told him, turned round and took a plug out and put one in. Five days later I found I had removed the plug from the freezer and everything inside was swimming. Including a 19 pound (weight) turkey I had in the freezer (not going into the story why it was there and not used at Christmas - don't ask) So I rang Alan Shutt and said you have dogs would they eat this turkey. He said turkeys are poisonous to dogs. I looked it up on google yes he was right so I took the wrappings off lugged it down to the bottom of the garden, it started to rain so I thought I shall try and cut it up in the morning. When I opened the curtains in the morning it had gone.(Theme tune to Jaws here). No bones there nothing. Cats too little to move or eat it. We do have a large dog fox in the Quarry could it have been him? How? Cannot get into neighbours gardens fenced off and there is a wall at the end of my garden and then Pannal Stream. Mystery has not been solved.
Monday, 25 February 2019
Pannal Hall
Unfortunately Jennifer Bentley who used to live at Pannal Hall but latterly lived at Brookside Cottage has died. She was 87. I used to visit her there and always found her informative and interesting to talk to. We shared the same name before we married. We were both called Grant and strangely enough we both had a great great grandfather also called Grant who was an Admiral in the Royal Navy. My Dad was in the Royal Navy for 22 years before and all through the Second World War and was a decorated war hero who was entitled to a gun carriage funeral in Harrogate. Which he had attended by the RN at Forest Moor. Jenny was also a WREN in the Royal Navy.
Does that leave Pat Lamb as Pannal's oldest inhabitant or is it Jennifer Bentley? Hopefully someone will let me know.
I have had the whole house decorated and as the decorator was going into one room I had all the furniture out and it was in the summerhouse, the garage, hall and other rooms. Eventually got it all back. Decided to wash every curtain in the house and fortunately it stayed dry. Horrible job getting them down and up again. What fun and I don't think. I have hundreds of books and I thought I will empty the bookcases, pile them in order so I know where they will go when it is time to put them back. What happened I do not know but I had bookcases filled and books left over and I am afraid they were stuffed in a pile. Still puzzled how that happened. Tigs and Marble did not like it one bit. Especially when their beds were thrown into the garden in order to paint the room they sleep in. Not a single purr all week.
The garden collection does not start until March 21 and everyone is gardening now and probably need to have the grass cut soon. Fortunately the family came up at half term and they helped me take the sacks to the tip. Weather, at the moment, brilliant does this bode well for summer?. Who knows but I hope so.
Does that leave Pat Lamb as Pannal's oldest inhabitant or is it Jennifer Bentley? Hopefully someone will let me know.
I have had the whole house decorated and as the decorator was going into one room I had all the furniture out and it was in the summerhouse, the garage, hall and other rooms. Eventually got it all back. Decided to wash every curtain in the house and fortunately it stayed dry. Horrible job getting them down and up again. What fun and I don't think. I have hundreds of books and I thought I will empty the bookcases, pile them in order so I know where they will go when it is time to put them back. What happened I do not know but I had bookcases filled and books left over and I am afraid they were stuffed in a pile. Still puzzled how that happened. Tigs and Marble did not like it one bit. Especially when their beds were thrown into the garden in order to paint the room they sleep in. Not a single purr all week.
The garden collection does not start until March 21 and everyone is gardening now and probably need to have the grass cut soon. Fortunately the family came up at half term and they helped me take the sacks to the tip. Weather, at the moment, brilliant does this bode well for summer?. Who knows but I hope so.
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Important time in Pannal's History
The Local Plan is in front of the Inspector. What is going to happen? Is the Crimple Valley going to be built upon.? When it was purchased on the A61 the other side of Pannal from Lord Harewood in 1952 and this side behind St Robert's Church from William Bentley of Pannal Hall in 1963 it was to safeguard the entrance to Harrogate from unwanted building. Pannal and Spacey Houses would be separated from Harrogate. In fact the Crimple Valley was given, later on, by Harrogate Borough Council Special Landscape Area Status - a non-statuary designation used by local Government in some parts of the UK to categorise sensitive landscapes which are either legally or as a matter of policy protected from development or other man made influences. Going way back in 1778 this land was retained by King George 111. Even if sold the Monarch Queen Elizabeth 11 retains the mineral rights. Duchy of Lancaster act for the Queen. In one of Andrew Jones MP intouch quotations it states.
Protecting our open spaces Green belt saved. An independant inspector has given the power to the Council to protect the local green belt and restrict new house building. The Council is amongst the first councils in the country to have its planning strategy approved by the government, after a long local public enquiry. This means the Council can proceed with its plans to protect the green belt, keep house building under control and ensure there are more affordable homes for local people.
The Council voted unanimously (with one absention) to adopt the strategy, under which:
Harrogate's green belt will be protected
Greenfield or open cpountry sites will be built on only as a very last resort.
Housing growth will be restricted to historic lows
41% of new homes to be affordable properties for local people
Additional protection for the environment and wildlife
Improved access to public transport and boost for sustainable means of transport like cycling
You can read the core strategy document by following the links on the council's website: www.harrogate.gov.uk/ldf
No this is not a joke but I wonder how many who read this blog think it is. What has happened??
I have a vast collection of documents relating to Pannal and this was amongst them I passed this information to Howard West Chairman of Pannal Parish Council and also to my neighbour David Wilby QC who spoke at the Public Inquiry into the Local Plan which is taking place now.
Read this and pass it on. Pannal needs all the help it can get.
Protecting our open spaces Green belt saved. An independant inspector has given the power to the Council to protect the local green belt and restrict new house building. The Council is amongst the first councils in the country to have its planning strategy approved by the government, after a long local public enquiry. This means the Council can proceed with its plans to protect the green belt, keep house building under control and ensure there are more affordable homes for local people.
The Council voted unanimously (with one absention) to adopt the strategy, under which:
Harrogate's green belt will be protected
Greenfield or open cpountry sites will be built on only as a very last resort.
Housing growth will be restricted to historic lows
41% of new homes to be affordable properties for local people
Additional protection for the environment and wildlife
Improved access to public transport and boost for sustainable means of transport like cycling
You can read the core strategy document by following the links on the council's website: www.harrogate.gov.uk/ldf
No this is not a joke but I wonder how many who read this blog think it is. What has happened??
I have a vast collection of documents relating to Pannal and this was amongst them I passed this information to Howard West Chairman of Pannal Parish Council and also to my neighbour David Wilby QC who spoke at the Public Inquiry into the Local Plan which is taking place now.
Read this and pass it on. Pannal needs all the help it can get.
Monday, 21 January 2019
Pannal bits
Before the decorator came to do the whole house I went down to Morrisons to get some shopping.Did my shopping reached the check out, reached into my pocket no keys (Morrisons card on my key ring) Told checkout girl I think I have let my car keys in the lock. Rushed out leaving shopping in trolley. Was I distracted or just plain daft - no answers on that please. I locked myself out of my car. I could see the keys on the back seat. Getting bags out to shop I had obviously put them down.
Honestly I never do that. Oh I don't. I asked a gentleman for help and he said this is your car isn't it as I don't want to try to get in if it is not. Anyway could not get in so I said I shall have to get a taxi home pick up spare keys and come back. Then another gentleman came over and said I will run you home. Said I had not picked up my shopping. He said ok I will wait. When I got back. My shopping had kindly been done by one of the staff. I thanked her. Lady on till asked me if I had my keys. I told her about gentleman's kind offer. We agreed there were kind people in the world and it is the horrible ones who make the headlines.I did tell Robin (that's his name) that I lived in Pannal and then found out he lives in Minskip. So he was indeed a very kind man. I will repay him with lunch next week.
Had an email from Chris Walker who used to live in Walton Park and attended Pannal School in 1988. Now lives in Manchester. Arranged for him to telephone me as he wanted information on Platform One. Had a very pleasant conversation as he is writing about the closure of pubs and where do people meet if pubs are closing down. I have lived here so long and always been interested in Pannal there is not much I do not know about its history and I am always happy to help people trace where their relatives lived, where they are they buried in St Roberts churchyard, etc. Had an American couple who were convinced that they were related to the Bentley family who used to reside in Pannal Hall. Their story did not ring quite true so when I enquired more it was the other Bentley family from Pannal's far of days they were related to. I can tell you they were not at all happy about that and flounced out of our garden without a backward glance at us and I had given them tea and cake too.
All for now as I have the decorator here decorating all the rooms. So at the moment I am living in the midst of a very large jumble sale.
A belated Happy New Year to you all .Unfortunately my New Year has not started well as I had a lousy cold and then dropped my very heavy golf battery on my big toe and broke it. Ok now I can get a shoe on and drive but not golfing as I cant get my golf shoe on. Besides I am doing very well moving "stuff" from one room to another. Marble and Tigs are not amused and I have not told them yet that where they sleep - utility room - is next on the agenda.
Honestly I never do that. Oh I don't. I asked a gentleman for help and he said this is your car isn't it as I don't want to try to get in if it is not. Anyway could not get in so I said I shall have to get a taxi home pick up spare keys and come back. Then another gentleman came over and said I will run you home. Said I had not picked up my shopping. He said ok I will wait. When I got back. My shopping had kindly been done by one of the staff. I thanked her. Lady on till asked me if I had my keys. I told her about gentleman's kind offer. We agreed there were kind people in the world and it is the horrible ones who make the headlines.I did tell Robin (that's his name) that I lived in Pannal and then found out he lives in Minskip. So he was indeed a very kind man. I will repay him with lunch next week.
Had an email from Chris Walker who used to live in Walton Park and attended Pannal School in 1988. Now lives in Manchester. Arranged for him to telephone me as he wanted information on Platform One. Had a very pleasant conversation as he is writing about the closure of pubs and where do people meet if pubs are closing down. I have lived here so long and always been interested in Pannal there is not much I do not know about its history and I am always happy to help people trace where their relatives lived, where they are they buried in St Roberts churchyard, etc. Had an American couple who were convinced that they were related to the Bentley family who used to reside in Pannal Hall. Their story did not ring quite true so when I enquired more it was the other Bentley family from Pannal's far of days they were related to. I can tell you they were not at all happy about that and flounced out of our garden without a backward glance at us and I had given them tea and cake too.
All for now as I have the decorator here decorating all the rooms. So at the moment I am living in the midst of a very large jumble sale.
A belated Happy New Year to you all .Unfortunately my New Year has not started well as I had a lousy cold and then dropped my very heavy golf battery on my big toe and broke it. Ok now I can get a shoe on and drive but not golfing as I cant get my golf shoe on. Besides I am doing very well moving "stuff" from one room to another. Marble and Tigs are not amused and I have not told them yet that where they sleep - utility room - is next on the agenda.
Saturday, 15 December 2018
Brrr in Pannal
At last I am able to write a blog. My computer just about working. I am fed up with it. I have had an awful job trying to write this. Would not accept my password. In fact all the passwords I use not being accepted for anything. I have changed my email address to anne.smith.pannal@gmail.com Probably everyone has problems with their computer but I seem to be more off than on.
Anyway all quiet in Pannal. Will all start up in January when we find out about all the proposed building around our village and also what is going to happen to Crimple Hall. Are they going to build the building they have planning permission for or is it going to be left as it is? No one seems to know what is going on. I think it is an asset in the village but I do wish the antique centre was a bit warmer. Went up yesterday and it was warmer outside than it was inside. Doesn't give one encouragement to browse and perhaps buy.
I am a member of Pannal Golf Club and have written their Centenary Book. I have been a member since 1974 and really enjoy playing there but what is happening to Rudding Park? Pannal seems to be getting a number of ladies from there leaving Rudding and coming to us.
Today it is freezing and there are not many people walking in the village. Hopefully they are out and about Christmas shopping. The Coop in the village was busy but everyone seemed to be in a car. Talking of cars I had to email Pannal School. It is not often that I need to leave the house about 8.30am but a couple of weeks ago I had an appointment in Harrogate and wanted to get a parking place. Did I get one no I did not as an elderly lady parked her little yellow car right across my drive and "b------ed off". I had to phone where I had the appointment and tell them. Fortunately I was not fined for not keeping the appointment and they arranged another one. Now you are wondering why I did not go out and approach the lady and ask it perhaps she had dementia as surely she was old enough to have been taught when she passed her driving test NOT TO PARK IN FRONT OF SOMEONE's DRIVE. I did not as I have had such abuse from mothers/grannies of children at Pannal School having been told on one occasion to (full word) f--- of and get a life and on another occasion came home to have three children in my garden throwing dirt on my drive and the mothers standing talking. I had to motion them out of the drive so that I could get in and when I asked why their children were in my garden one of the mothers said to me Why don't you like children then?. Answer well I obviously do as I have had four but probably not you or yours. Jane the Head Teacher was quick to reply, as this is certainly not the first or even second or even third time I have had to complain about parents (all women). I have seen the Head Teachers and they always send letters reminding the parents where not to park but it is a different breed of parents these days.I am not the only one in Main Street as we have all suffered from time to time.
Everyone getting ready for Christmas now and I am no exception. All the family will be here. Fifteen of us all staying here. Not a space to be had but I love it.
Had a lovely surprise a couple of week's ago as I received an invitation to a Tea Dance in the Sun Pavilion in the Valley Gardens. It was on the 10th December exactly twenty years since I met Her Majesty The Queen when she opened the refurbished Sun Pavilion which I had saved that and the Colonnades from demolition when the Council of the day wanted it all demolished and of all things a car park in its place.
Nothing to report on Tigs and Marble except to say they are not allowed to wander through the house now as I would not put it past either of them to climb up the Christmas tree in the hall.
I wish you and yours a very Happy Christmas and a Guid New Year.
Anyway all quiet in Pannal. Will all start up in January when we find out about all the proposed building around our village and also what is going to happen to Crimple Hall. Are they going to build the building they have planning permission for or is it going to be left as it is? No one seems to know what is going on. I think it is an asset in the village but I do wish the antique centre was a bit warmer. Went up yesterday and it was warmer outside than it was inside. Doesn't give one encouragement to browse and perhaps buy.
I am a member of Pannal Golf Club and have written their Centenary Book. I have been a member since 1974 and really enjoy playing there but what is happening to Rudding Park? Pannal seems to be getting a number of ladies from there leaving Rudding and coming to us.
Today it is freezing and there are not many people walking in the village. Hopefully they are out and about Christmas shopping. The Coop in the village was busy but everyone seemed to be in a car. Talking of cars I had to email Pannal School. It is not often that I need to leave the house about 8.30am but a couple of weeks ago I had an appointment in Harrogate and wanted to get a parking place. Did I get one no I did not as an elderly lady parked her little yellow car right across my drive and "b------ed off". I had to phone where I had the appointment and tell them. Fortunately I was not fined for not keeping the appointment and they arranged another one. Now you are wondering why I did not go out and approach the lady and ask it perhaps she had dementia as surely she was old enough to have been taught when she passed her driving test NOT TO PARK IN FRONT OF SOMEONE's DRIVE. I did not as I have had such abuse from mothers/grannies of children at Pannal School having been told on one occasion to (full word) f--- of and get a life and on another occasion came home to have three children in my garden throwing dirt on my drive and the mothers standing talking. I had to motion them out of the drive so that I could get in and when I asked why their children were in my garden one of the mothers said to me Why don't you like children then?. Answer well I obviously do as I have had four but probably not you or yours. Jane the Head Teacher was quick to reply, as this is certainly not the first or even second or even third time I have had to complain about parents (all women). I have seen the Head Teachers and they always send letters reminding the parents where not to park but it is a different breed of parents these days.I am not the only one in Main Street as we have all suffered from time to time.
Everyone getting ready for Christmas now and I am no exception. All the family will be here. Fifteen of us all staying here. Not a space to be had but I love it.
Had a lovely surprise a couple of week's ago as I received an invitation to a Tea Dance in the Sun Pavilion in the Valley Gardens. It was on the 10th December exactly twenty years since I met Her Majesty The Queen when she opened the refurbished Sun Pavilion which I had saved that and the Colonnades from demolition when the Council of the day wanted it all demolished and of all things a car park in its place.
Nothing to report on Tigs and Marble except to say they are not allowed to wander through the house now as I would not put it past either of them to climb up the Christmas tree in the hall.
I wish you and yours a very Happy Christmas and a Guid New Year.
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